The document discusses developing a positive attitude, which is an important practice for life. It involves training the mind to think positively rather than negatively. Having a positive attitude attracts people, helps manage stress better, and leads to better health and success compared to a negative attitude. Developing a positive attitude is an art that requires consciously using positive words, focusing on happy feelings, disregarding negative thoughts, engaging in inspiring activities, and surrounding oneself with positive people. Maintaining a positive attitude provides benefits like achieving goals, greater happiness, and inspiring others. It is a key to success when combined with necessary actions.

1. Art of Developing
Positive Attitude
Varun Chandok

2. • Meaning:
Positive attitude is one of the most important things
you need to practice throughout your life. Positive
attitude is more than just something you do when
things go wrong or when you try to correct a
situation. Positive attitude is a way of living, it is a
practice, it is a technique that you need to
incorporate into your daily life if you have any
intentions of changing things and accomplishing
your goals. Positive attitude requires that you get
rid of all you negative thought patterns and creates
a new belief system. There isn’t a book out there
that can do this for you, because you have to train
your mind to work differently.

3. • Example:
Here is an example of what people think is positive
attitude. A person may lose his job and says: “Oh, I
know I’ll get a job, I have to. I am just going to take
my time and I’ll get a job soon.” That’s being
optimistic but it’s not necessarily incorporating with
positive thinking. Optimism is an attitude. Positive
thinking is a frame of mind that gets results. In
order to develop this frame of mind you need to
train your mind and not have a simple attitude.

4. • Difference between Positive and
Negative Attitude:
1. A positive attitude attracts people while negative
attitude repels them.
2. Positive attitude helps one to handle stress and
problems better than those who have a negative
attitude.
3. Positive attitude makes one self-assured,
confident and satisfied while negative attitude has
an opposite effect.
4. Positive attitude makes you healthier.

5. • Positive attitude- An Art:
If you want to live longer, be happy, healthy and
successful all you have to do is tell yourself that you
can do it. you feel exhilarated, energetic, happy and
on the top of the world. A sense of total well being
permeates your mind. The future looks bright. You
feel good to be alive. That is the power of positive
affirmations. It is a powerful tool for transforming
your inner self into an amazing health-generating,
self-healing entity.

6. • Few actions that develop the power of
Positive Attitude:
1. Always use only positive words while thinking and
while talking like ‘I can’, ‘I am able’ etc.
2. Allow into awareness only feelings of happiness,
strength and success.
3. Try to disregard and ignore negative thoughts.
4. Read at least one page of inspiring book every day.
5. Watch movies that make you feel happy.
6. Associate yourself with people who think positively.
7. Always sit and walk with your back straight.
8. Walk, swim and engage in other physical activities.
9. Think positive and expect only favorable results.
10. In conversation use words that evoke feelings and
mental images of strength, happiness and success.

7. • Tips for maintaining a Positive
Attitude:
1. Read positive and inspiring books.
2. Listen to CDs.
3. Wake up early.
4. Exercise.
5. Plan your week and day.
6. Be thankful.
7. Surround yourself with positive people.

8. • Positive Attitude- How to develop:
1. Listen to internal dialogue.
2. Learn to communicate.
3. Help someone out.
4. Find your spirituality.
5. Laugh at yourself and find humor in simplest of
things.
6. Participate in new physical and mental activities
to improve confidence levels and coping
mechanisms.

9. • Positive Attitude- Benefits:
1. Helps achieving goals and attaining health.
2. Success achieved faster and more easily.
3. More happiness and more energy.
4. Greater inner power and strength.
5. The ability to inspire and motivate others and
ourselves.
6. The ability to surmount any difficulty.
7. Life smiles at us.
8. People respect us.
9. Look at the bright side of life.
10. Choose to be and stay optimistic.
11. Find reasons to smile more often.
12. Visualize only what we want to happen.

10. • Positive Attitude- Key to success:
In order to make positive thinking yields results,
you need to develop a positive attitude towards
life, expect a successful outcome of whatever you
do, but also take a necessary actions to ensure
your success. Effective positive thinking that
brings results is much more than just repeating a
few positive words or telling yourself that
everything is going to be alright. It has to be your
predominant mental attitude. It makes your life to
move more smoothly and makes life look bright
and promising.